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Andrew F. Davis papers, January-October 1863

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Murfreesboro Tenn. Feb. 5 1863 
Mrs Sarah Davis 
My dear wife 
It is quite wintery here now considering that we are now in the suny south. On Monday last it became quite cool and that night snowed a little. Tuesday it soon melted off again and in the afternoon it commenced raining and rained all night and Wednesday it snowed a little but melted off in half an hour and last night snowed again and this morning melted again and about evry hour today it has snowed and then melted as often and so it goes. We think it quite cold but in Indiana it would not be called so. I have not saw the ground frozen one inch in depth at any time this winter so you can judge by that how cold our severest weather is here and yet the citizens call it a very severe winter. It is now fast verging on Spring in this climate and we do not anticipate much more cold weather. The roads off of the pikes are very bad and if traveled much would soon become impassable. And even the pike between here and Nashville is in many places impassable which is caused by so much hauling over them by our Army trains but I presume that will not last much longer as the R. R. will soon be in operation this far in a few days. News is quite scarce here now as evrything is jogging along Army fashion. Our forage trains go out evry day and have to go some 10 or 12 miles to find forage. Sometimes they run on to some Secesh Cavalry who are prowling around our lines. 
Yesterdays Nashville paper gives an account of our forces capturing 300 of Wheelers Rebel Cavalry on Tuesday last and evry day we capture more or less of their infantry but they as a general thing are not had to capture as they are nearly all deserters from the Rebels and come to us voluntarily as they are anctious to get out of the service.

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Murfreesboro Tenn. Feb. 5 1863 Mrs Sarah Davis My dear wife It is quite wintery here now considering that we are now in the suny south. On Monday last it became quite cool and that night snowed a little. Tuesday it soon melted off again and in the afternoon it commenced raining and rained all night and Wednesday it snowed a little but melted off in half an hour and last night snowed again and this morning melted again and about evry hour today it has snowed and then melted as often and so it goes. We think it quite cold but in Indiana it would not be called so. I have not saw the ground frozen one inch in depth at any time this winter so you can judge by that how cold our severest weather is here and yet the citizens call it a very severe winter. It is now fast verging on Spring in this climate and we do not anticipate much more cold weather. The roads off of the pikes are very bad and if traveled much would soon become impassable. And even the pike between here and Nashville is in many places impassable which is caused by so much hauling over them by our Army trains but I presume that will not last much longer as the R. R. will soon be in operation this far in a few days. News is quite scarce here now as evrything is jogging along Army fashion. Our forage trains go out evry day and have to go some 10 or 12 miles to find forage. Sometimes they run on to some Secesh Cavalry who are prowling around our lines. Yesterdays Nashville paper gives an account of our forces capturing 300 of Wheelers Rebel Cavalry on Tuesday last and evry day we capture more or less of their infantry but they as a general thing are not had to capture as they are nearly all deserters from the Rebels and come to us voluntarily as they are anctious to get out of the service.